Baptist Church, Ipswich, Former Baptist church in Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

Baptist Church is a former Baptist church at 188 Brisbane Street, Ipswich, built of brick in 1877 to a design by Richard Gailey and given an Art Deco makeover in 1938 by George Brockwell Gill. It is listed on the Queensland Heritage Register and now serves as the Studio 188 performing arts space.

The Baptist congregation formed in Ipswich in 1860 and built a first chapel in Rev. Thomas Deacon's West Street garden. Growth under Rev. J. Straughen led to a new brick church on Brisbane Street, designed by Richard Gailey and erected in 1877. George Brockwell Gill directed an Art Deco refurbishment completed in 1938, and a memorial gate honouring World War II dead was opened in 1954. The congregation moved out in 2004, and the building became the Studio 188 performance venue.

The Baptist congregation left in 2004, and since 2012 the Ipswich City Council has run the former church as Studio 188, a performing arts venue. The 1954 memorial gate, a gable roof on barley-twist columns, honours church members who fought and died in World War II.

The former church stands at 188 Brisbane Street, not on London Road, and is now Studio 188, a performing arts venue run by Ipswich City Council since 2012. It is no longer an active Baptist church, so there are no weekly services; check the venue's programme before visiting. The 1954 memorial gate with barley-twist columns marks the entrance to the memorial grounds beside the building.

The 1877 church is the oldest surviving Baptist church in Queensland still on its original site; the only older one, at Nundah (1876), was moved from Spring Hill. Architect Richard Gailey, a Baptist, designed it and often gave his services free.